SULB Steel Mill

Project Summery
The massive work involved 100,000 cubic meters of concrete and 13000 tons of steel erection in 36 weeks. Kooheji Contractor had to employ a massive manpower of 1500 working 2 shifts to achieve the milestone. When completed in 2013, the design-and-build and highly complex project will stand as one of the largest steel mills in the region.

About SULB Steel Mill
United Steel Company (“SULB”) BSC (c) is the Middle East region’s first fully integrated medium and heavy beams and structural steel sections producer. Located in the Kingdom of Bahrain, SULB is a joint venture between Gulf United Steel Holding Company (“Foulath”) BSC (c), the Middle East’s leading steel investment vehicle and holding company (owning 51% of SULB and Japan’s Yamato Kogyo Co., Ltd, a leading global beams and structural sections producer (owning 49% of SULB). SULB will be the lowest cost producer of its kind in the world and, once fully operational, will replace approximately 14% of the current imports of medium and heavy beams and structural sections into the Middle East markets.